People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — All to Help the Laborer [ARTICLE]

All to Help the Laborer

The Harvey-Horr debate effectually demonstated one thing which was not unknown before —to-wit, that the gold-bugs are making desperate efforts to capture the labor vote, and are not succeeding any better than they have with the farmer. Mr. Horr made many and touching references to his early struggles and the hard work he has done in his life, but neglected to mention the latter portion, during which he has been a bank president, until this was brought out by Mr. Harvey. The presence and active assistance of such millionaires and multi-million-aires as signed the gold-bug platform was hardly conductive to the idea that gold is “the poor man's money.” Among them were the treasurer of the debate. Lyman J. Gage, president of the First National bank, capital $7,000,000. deposits $30.000,000; E. G. Keith, retired merchant and president of the Metropolitan National bank, capital $1,000,000; J. Lawrence Laugh I'.n, professor in Mr. Rockefeller's ten million dollar hobby, the University of Chicago; Marshal Field, merchant, worth upwards of $25,000,000; Phillip D. Armour, pork packer, worth upwards of $50,000,000, and Roswell Miller, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. The only promi nent Chicago millionaire not connected with Mr. Horr in this : debate was George M. Pullman. We doubt not he would have been asked to take part, but for ■the “late unpleasantness” and his consequent relations with ; the laboring classes. —Western Rural.

Not since “The Anglomaniacs" has there been so clever a society satire as Henry Fuller's “Pilgrim Sons,” which is published in the August Cosmopolitan. The problems involved woman’s use of the bicycle are so startling and so numerous, under the rapid evolution of this art, that one welco nes a careful discussion of the subject by so trained a mind and so clever a writer as Mrs. Reginald de Koven. The Cosmopolitan illustrates Mrs. de Koven's article with'a series of poses by professional models. A new sport, more thrilling than any known to Nimrod, moredangerous than was ever experienced by even a Buffalo Bill, is exploited in the same issue in an i article o» “Photographing Big Game in the Rocky Mountains,” before shooting. The. idea that ! ten cents for The Cosmopolitan means inferiority from a literary point of view is dispelled by the appearance in this number of ! such writers as Sir Lewis Morris, Sir Edwin Arnold, Edgar Fawicett. Tabb. W. Clark Russell, Lang. Sarcey. Zangwill. Agnes I Repplier. etc. Now can we entertain the idea of inferiority in illustration with such names as Hamilton Gibson. Denman, Van Schaick, Lix. Sand ham, etc., figuring as the- chief artists of a single month's issue.